[FRIAM] numbers

Tom Johnson tom at jtjohnson.com
Mon Nov 2 14:46:48 EST 2020


Nick:
I would suggest that the 2010 population data is pretty thin for analysis.
Off the top of my head, our 87505 ZIP has about 25k people as of 2019.  ZIP
87507 has about 50k.  Hence the crying need for an appropriate denominator
when looking at cases by ZIP.
Tom
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On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 12:27 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Glen, I think the relevant data line was POP100, although I don't
> know why "100".  In a  sane world, that would be the population in
> hundreds, but that would give our zip code a population of 4.5 million,
> which seems a bit  heavy.  In any case, for those of  you following case
> increments by zip code, here are some denominators as of 2010, as well as
> the most recent per day 7 day increments. .  The second two columns are
> deviation are expectation and deviation.  No surprises there, except that
> there seems to be a bit of a run of cases out by the golf course.  507 has
> a third more cases than it should have, which demonstrates once again that
> it's better for your health to be rich than poor.  *Caveat emptor:* these
> calculations were done literally on the back of an envelope by an 82 year
> old guy with poor eyesight and C's in math.
>
>
>
> 501 - 15,147  - 13% - 02.3c - 4  -
>
> 505 - 31,013  - 25% - 06.0   - 8  -
>
> 506 - 12, 580 - 09% - 05.5   - 3 +
>
> 507 - 45, 890 - 38% - 18.0   - 12 ++
>
> 508 - 18, 183 - 15% - 01.5  -  5 -
>
>
>
> Nick
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> Nicholas Thompson
>
> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
>
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> And if you don't want to download a huge file, you can use the census web
> app:
>
>
>
> E.g. for my zip code (98502):
>
>
>
>
> https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/PUMA_TAD_TAZ_UGA_ZCTA/MapServer/7/query?where=ZCTA5%3D%2798502%27&text=&objectIds=&time=&geometry=&geometryType=esriGeometryEnvelope&inSR=&spatialRel=esriSpatialRelIntersects&relationParam=&outFields=*&returnGeometry=false&returnTrueCurves=false&maxAllowableOffset=&geometryPrecision=&outSR=&returnIdsOnly=false&returnCountOnly=false&orderByFields=&groupByFieldsForStatistics=&outStatistics=&returnZ=false&returnM=false&gdbVersion=&returnDistinctValues=false&resultOffset=&resultRecordCount=&queryByDistance=&returnExtentsOnly=false&datumTransformation=&parameterValues=&rangeValues=&f=html
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>
> I'd say this is an excellent example of government transparency.
>
>
>
> On 11/2/20 9:08 AM, Barry MacKichan wrote:
>
> > One of the first search hits is
>
> > https://www.kaggle.com/census/us-population-by-zip-code
>
> > <https://www.kaggle.com/census/us-population-by-zip-code>
>
> > —Barry
>
> >
>
> > On 2 Nov 2020, at 11:59, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
>
> >
>
> >     Is it possible to get population by zipcode?  It seems like it’s
>
> > proprietary info.
>
> >
>
> >
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> >
>
> >     How’s that for government transparency!
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